The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Video Conferencing in IT contracts advertised for the East of England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Video Conferencing over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all terms in our Miscellaneous category for the East of England region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Videoconferencing
Rank 112 128 119
Rank change year-on-year
+16 -9
Contract jobs citing Video Conferencing 2 4 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 0.094% 0.135% 0.303%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.414% 0.645% 1.653%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
Average daily rate £300 £155 £100
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+93.54% +55.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £300 £263
% change year-on-year
+16.66% +14.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 7
Average hourly rate £17.47 £17.25 £12.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+1.27% +38.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £10.00 £16.50 £13.00
% change year-on-year
-39.39% +26.92%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
East of England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
483 620 484
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 22.58% 20.98% 18.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 223 273 189
Average daily rate £325 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £218 £200 £178
10% offered a daily rate of more than £455 £450 £489
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 66 67
Average hourly rate £32.50 £29.00 £25.38
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+12.06% +14.28%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 £13.00 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £43.00 £49.00 £37.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year
- -13.46%
Video Conferencing
England

Video Conferencing
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Video Conferencing across the East of England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

East of England Video Conferencing Jobs Demand Trend

Video Conferencing
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Video Conferencing across the East of England region.

East of England Video Conferencing Daily Rate Trend

Video Conferencing
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Video Conferencing across the East of England region.

East of England Video Conferencing Hourly Rate Trend

Video Conferencing
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Video Conferencing within the East of England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Bedfordshire - 1 £300 -
Hertfordshire - 1 - -
Video Conferencing
England

Video Conferencing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing Video Conferencing also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Video Conferencing.

1 4 (66.67%) VPN
1 4 (66.67%) Cisco
1 4 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 3 (50.00%) Polycom
2 3 (50.00%) Windows
3 2 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (33.33%) MPLS
3 2 (33.33%) VoIP
3 2 (33.33%) WAN
3 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 2 (33.33%) CCNP
3 2 (33.33%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (33.33%) Riverbed
3 2 (33.33%) ITIL
3 2 (33.33%) HP
3 2 (33.33%) Incident Management
3 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (33.33%) Firewall
3 2 (33.33%) Wireless
3 2 (33.33%) VMware
4 1 (16.67%) Altiris
4 1 (16.67%) PKI
4 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
4 1 (16.67%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (16.67%) SQL Server 2008
4 1 (16.67%) Cacti
4 1 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2003
4 1 (16.67%) Cisco IPT
4 1 (16.67%) Citrix
4 1 (16.67%) DFS Replication

Video Conferencing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing Video Conferencing also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Video Conferencing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2003
1 1 (16.67%) IIS
1 1 (16.67%) MS Exchange
Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) VPN
2 2 (33.33%) MPLS
2 2 (33.33%) VoIP
2 2 (33.33%) WAN
2 2 (33.33%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (33.33%) Firewall
2 2 (33.33%) Wireless
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco IPT
3 1 (16.67%) SMTP
3 1 (16.67%) HTTP
3 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
3 1 (16.67%) ISDN
3 1 (16.67%) BGP
3 1 (16.67%) EIGRP
3 1 (16.67%) MGCP
3 1 (16.67%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server 2008
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Systems Administrator
2 2 (33.33%) Support Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Administrator
3 1 (16.67%) IT Support Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Network Administrator
3 1 (16.67%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) IT Support
3 1 (16.67%) Service Desk Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) 2nd Line Support
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) PKI
1 1 (16.67%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (16.67%) Windows XP
2 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) ITIL
1 2 (33.33%) Incident Management
2 1 (16.67%) WAN Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (33.33%) CCNP
2 1 (16.67%) CCNA
2 1 (16.67%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) GAMP
1 1 (16.67%) GxP
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (16.67%) DFS Replication
3 1 (16.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Cacti
1 1 (16.67%) FortiGate
1 1 (16.67%) Nagios
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Cisco
2 3 (50.00%) Polycom
3 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 2 (33.33%) Riverbed
3 2 (33.33%) HP
3 2 (33.33%) VMware
4 1 (16.67%) Altiris
4 1 (16.67%) Citrix
4 1 (16.67%) Tandberg
4 1 (16.67%) Remedy
4 1 (16.67%) McAfee
4 1 (16.67%) Clearswift
4 1 (16.67%) Juniper
4 1 (16.67%) JD Edwards